WPL4 - Team Motley Crew Official Thread

01/24/2007 09:46:38 AM · #151

Tate told me my personal deadline date is 24 hours earlier then the posted ones. Don't worry about it baco99, I didn't submit any this week since I have so much to do including the Players Cards.

Thanks for the link, I was just going to clone them by screen capturing several and add/delete parts. Yes I was intending to make each a different major color shade/hue, but tye-dye is interesting, too.

Closeups, are better when shown in the reduced, forum signiture size. I prefer the Axe-shaver for Asim, maybe he can put a fake cat on the cat-scanner for an appropriate future challenge.

As scalvert's essay link I posted here earlier stated fake, stuffed animals are not good enough. I did see a fake, in studio, sunset get a ribbon.

It was created with a light through a pin hole, in orange paper. Focus on an idea, or just a place to go and hunt for a shot. I've got an Ice Hockey t-shirt that says, "Shoot first, ask questions later".

01/24/2007 10:52:14 AM · #152

Usually my scores reflect the time and effort spent even if the idea was great. I know we all will have high and low scores, but we will learn and be much greater a year from now.
What do you think of my last two?
I fixed up my remote photo after submitting in the last 5-minutes.
4.7970 pts., 71/89, 20%

colorcarnival wins the prize, one matchbook.
Many comments were just number of matches or matchbooks not even about the photo.
5.2938 pts., 112/245, 55%

I thank my wife for these it was her hand and her matches.

01/24/2007 02:08:10 PM · #153

Whoo hoo - a matchbook! Sorry, could not resist posting a guess like others did lol. I thought it was interesting - what was your background?

I bet if I had just taken a photo of a matchbook, my score would have been higher. Who knew that DPC voters wanted something that simple? I had a good idea at the last minute and the results were terrible. Wish I had more time to go get some colorful socks! Maybe I would have come in 6th from the bottom instead of 5th from the bottom lol. I was not happy with it going in and the results were to be expected. With it being that low tho, I was disappointed to not win the brown ribbon...

However, I really liked what I submitted for ENTRANCE and the viewers do not. Therefore, I pledge to you, my fellow Motley Crew, that starting next week, I will submit one photo that is a PURE LITERAL INTERPRETATION of the challenge. And then I will go off an submit in another challenge my own artistic vision. I am off on a mission to prove that voters really like PURE LITERAL INTERPRETATIONS. Hence forth, I shoot without thinking. :D

01/24/2007 02:12:32 PM · #154

wow, that was really interesting reading about the cat tail shot.
I love stuff like that.

Since I missed the enter/exit challenge I did decide to enter a minimalism shot. It should be interesting to see how well it does.

I sent the horrible self portrait. Hopefully, it will look ok. LOL

01/24/2007 02:19:59 PM · #155

Originally posted by colorcarnival:

However, I really liked what I submitted for ENTRANCE and the viewers do not. Therefore, I pledge to you, my fellow Motley Crew, that starting next week, I will submit one photo that is a PURE LITERAL INTERPRETATION of the challenge. And then I will go off an submit in another challenge my own artistic vision. I am off on a mission to prove that voters really like PURE LITERAL INTERPRETATIONS. Hence forth, I shoot without thinking. :D

I was saying in another post how Im going to have to start thinking for the voters now and not so much for my own interpretation. I don't want to 'conform' to much though so we'll see.

I'm really surprised that my wildlife shot is actually CLOSE to a 5.0!
My last few challenges were in the crapper. I predict Nude will too! hahaha (on purpose though) Don't worry, Im getting it out of my system before the real challenge begins. ;)

01/24/2007 04:59:06 PM · #156

I'm greatly surprised theat the more creative dancing matches came in 7th place. I'll have to read the pre-Results comments. I also thought of using a large butane replica of a match, but I didn't have time to buy one. Wooden matches are less expensive.

Some people spend a lot for props, I've spent a lot at craft-stores, party center stores, Big lots/Dollar stores, and ZGallery. Halloween stores have great makeup, masks, and fake blood. I do have many that I haven't used, yet. I bet some photographers never use them. Many great backgrounds have been created in PhotoShop and projected on an LCD Moniter/TV.

Here's a guy that bought a tricycle and a model rocket.

Olympus 14-45mm f/3.5-5.6 Zuiko Digital ED

01/24/2007 11:30:52 PM · #157

whew - submitted my photo for minimalsm. all done for the week. I've got one in wildlife, and Entrance too. Going overboard with my new membership!

Going to be testing my theory of literal interpretation in the minimalsm challenge. So this means no abstractness or attempts at art lol. as long as it does better than my sock pic, I'm a happy camper.

good luck to everyone this week!

baco99

Olympus E-500 EVOLT

01/25/2007 02:38:28 PM · #158

cool! i'm in for the Best of 2006, and the Monthly Free Study. I think I'll go after the Fit the Frame and DOF ones too.

Next week will be a little less hectic.

01/25/2007 03:29:44 PM · #159

How does the montly free study thing work? Is it like your best pic of the month kind of thing?

Originally posted by baco99:

cool! i'm in for the Best of 2006, and the Monthly Free Study. I think I'll go after the Fit the Frame and DOF ones too.

Next week will be a little less hectic.

01/25/2007 03:34:10 PM · #160

Originally posted by colorcarnival:

How does the montly free study thing work? Is it like your best pic of the month kind of thing?

Yep, thats exactly right. I'm glad your enjoying your new membership! Isn't it fun?

I am going to do full frame and dof one also.

01/26/2007 01:47:29 PM · #161

I did a quick entry for the "Minimal III" just for the heck of it.
I always learn something new. I used some reflected light from a large piece of white foamboard. Somehow those comercial reflectors seem to make sense, less direct light is better for some subjects.

Votes: 51
Views: 77
Avg Vote: 5.7647

Please send me some ideas for our Team Logo.
I downloaded all the "Motley Cru" rock videos from msn.com in searching for ideas the other day.

Olympus 14-45mm f/3.5-5.6 Zuiko Digital ED

01/26/2007 02:24:33 PM · #162

Originally posted by justamistere:

Votes: 51
Views: 77
Avg Vote: 5.7647

Your doing better than me and I actually tried hard on it! LOL
BOTH minimal and fill the frame is getting slammed below a 5!

baco99

Olympus E-500 EVOLT

01/26/2007 09:47:27 PM · #163

5.5637 for my latest. i think it's better than that, but oh well!

01/27/2007 02:43:15 PM · #164

just playing to see what my sig looks like

01/27/2007 02:54:42 PM · #165

me again - don;t like how big the sig is

01/27/2007 03:14:44 PM · #166

one more time - just to be incredibly annoying...
can't help it - i really love smileys!

Tamron AF 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 XR Di II for Canon

01/28/2007 10:05:38 AM · #167

I don't see any smileys.

dsterner

Canon EOS-40D

01/28/2007 07:54:45 PM · #168

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J-Me

Sony DSLR-A200

Sony 75-300 mm f/4.5-5.6

01/28/2007 07:56:01 PM · #169

Oh boy, I'm finally weighing in this week. I've got 3 entries on the go and all are doing BAD! I tried some "artsy" stuff and I can tell you that it's not fairing well in here! Lesson Learned: Don't Go Arsty! The peeps in here don't seem to like it much! Oh, and Don't Have A Sense Of Humor Either! It gets you having to "validate" your entry!

That's how I spent my week.....waiting for validation and it was validated because I didn't break any rules! Still.....it made me feel like I was back in highschool, getting questioned on cheating on a test that I didn't cheat on! GRRRRRR.

Ah well, ya live and ya learn!

How are the playing cards coming along John? They must be a real headache!

Tamron AF 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 XR Di II for Canon

01/28/2007 11:25:58 PM · #170

I know its disheartening to have to validate. But it is a procedure that is put into place to keep it honest. Look at it this way, you did such a good job that you fooled them. They had to see for themselves if it was within the rules or not. Could be taken as a compliment.

My advice, if you like artsy, be artsy. If you like something else, then be that way. Be true to yourself first and foremost.

dsterner

Canon EOS-40D

01/29/2007 12:18:25 AM · #171

where are we as a team? WPL4 started and we haven't said anything? I don't get it.

asimchoudhri

Canon EOS-5D Mark III

Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0L USM

01/29/2007 12:20:55 AM · #172

Originally posted by dsterner:

where are we as a team? WPL4 started and we haven't said anything? I don't get it.

calm before the storm... :-)